waaaaaaaa....

I'm sitting on my in-laws front porch, enjoying the mountain views, cooler temps and tremendous lack of mosquitos... boy is it gonna be hard to go back home tomorrow!
One thing that'll get me back to Michigan - gluten. The only source for gluten-free foods down here is the internet. Though I was assured that WalMart (the only "grocery" store down here) has a great selection of gluten-free stuff, this one had very little, if any. It would be the usual reading every label... The "health food stores" have no food, only vitamins. The closest Whole Foods is hours away... as is the closest book store (another reason to go back home!). But the views! The lack of mosquitos! I couldn't even sit on my porch at home - going from the front door to my car door is like a gauntlet full of mosquitos rather than axes. Here, I just have to worry about the ticks - but not on the porch! It makes me cry every time we have to go back home...
I've decided to start a Flickr account with some of the photos I've taken (some more to be taken as soon as I'm off this laptop! On the porch! Wireless internet in the middle of the mountains and I can't even get voicemail at my house let alone cable internet!). Got some good street signs that have just baffled me for years lol and cows and mountains and this beautiful porch. Have I mentioned how much I love this porch???
Anyway, I've gotta get my camera - hubby and his dad are using the metal detector in the front yard and tearing it up LOL!

On vacation...

Yeehaw!

still feeling like crap...

It's been 3 days now since my icky vestibular nightmare. I still feel like shit. Motion-sick kind of shit, not glutined kind of shit. And we're hitting the road tonight. For a road trip. In a moving car. Uck. Can't wait to ride on those windy hilly Virginia backroads! Weeeee!

The Bane Of My Existence

I wouldn't wish vestibular testing on my worst enemy. Now, apparently, most people don't have the reaction I did, but still. After nearly every test, I felt too nauseated and dizzy to continue right away. Then the worst test of all...
They run cold water into your ears (and suck it out too) for about a minute. When it stops, it feels like you're moving - ew. You're supposed to just lay there and stare straight ahead while they record your eye movements. The left ear was a bit of nausea and dizzyness. But the right ear! OMG. It was terrible vertigo, and I got sick...
The worst part ever is that I got sick too quickly - they didn't get a good recording of my eye movements. I have to do it again. I have to do both ears again! ACK! I told her that I couldn't do it today, not after throwing up the nothing I was told to have to eat. Ugh.
So I have to do the water in the ear tests (cold, and then the warm which we didn't get to), and then the super fun sitting in a turning chair. I'll bring my own barf bag with me next time...
She told me about a drug I can have my doc prescribe so that my response next time won't be as bad. I want to not have to do it ever ever ever again. Ever. And then take an elevator up a floor, walk across a hallway, then take an escalator down so that I can take another elevator up to my car.
I got home about 12:30. I slept until 4, ate some ricey goodness, then slept until 2:30am. I hope I can get back to sleep so I can go to work tomorrow! Oh boy!
So anyway, my next appointment for torture aka vestibular testing isn't until August. So I have a few months until I throw up again - good times.